I am the living bread that came down from heaven. Whoever eats this bread will live forever, and the bread that I will give for the life of the world is my flesh.” Then the Jews debated among themselves, asking, “How can this man give us his flesh to eat?” Jesus said to them, “I assure you, unless you eat the flesh of the Human One and drink his blood, you have no life in you. Whoever eats my flesh and drinks my blood has eternal life, and I will raise them up at the last day. My flesh is true food and my blood is true drink. Whoever eats my flesh and drinks my blood remains in me and I in them. As the living Father sent me, and I live because of the Father, so whoever eats me lives because of me. This is the bread that came down from heaven. It isn’t like the bread your ancestors ate, and then they died. Whoever eats this bread will live forever.” (John 6:51-58, CEB)
Jesus is the living bread and we say that this is communion. Jesus in the night before he was crucified had dinner with his friends and said this is my body broken and given for you when holding bread and this is my blood shed and given for you while holding a cup of wine. This didn’t happen in the gospel of John, but in the other three and is noted in Paul’s letters, specifically Corinthians.
But here we get Jesus saying he is the living bread. And while this can be seen as talking about communion, it is also talking about believing in Jesus and having a relationship with God.
When we commune with Jesus and live in that relationship we are being fed and nourished to be who God created us to be. Unless we maintain our relationship with Jesus, we are not living the life God called us to live.
We will live forever when we abide with Christ. When we have faith and know that we are loved as is and called to love the world in the same fashion, to show them grace and mercy and see that God’s love is shared.
Love like Jesus.
Loving People. Loving God.
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